"Goy" is a Hebrew word which means "nation." It’s found frequently in the <NOBR>Torah</NOBR>, where it usually refers to "the nations," i.e. anyone not Jewish, outside the "Nation of Israel," i.e. the Jewish People. However, since it is a neutral phrase, it sometimes refers to the Jews as well.
Some Jew-haters like to claim that Jews call non-Jews "cows" by conveniently changing goy to koy, which in <NOBR>Yiddish</NOBR> does mean cow.
The plural of goy is goyim; the plural of nation is nations. One goy, two goyim. One nation, two nations.
How is the word "goy" used?
1. Today, the word "goy" has come to mean "non-Jew"—a Catholic priest, for example, is most likely a goy. Those Rastafarians strolling down the street are probably all goyim.
2. The word goy can be a loaded or even derogatory phrase, like the word "Mexican" in "Some Mexican hacked into my website." This is the sociological child of European-ghetto-nurtured Jewish separatism and the oft-times vicious, violent anti-Semitism that kept it in place for hundreds of years. On the other hand, the word goy is generally neutral, like the word "Mexican" in "My friend Carlos speaks Spanish, 'cause he's Mexican, you know."